GDR EXHIBITION DESIGN

For the exhibition design, artist Ruth Buchanan and architect Andreas Müller focuses on the Casco space to transform it in the way of actualising the domestic sphere as a space that can offer other modalities of being such as openness, vulnerability and generosity and therefore actively reinterpreting its social and political potential. For them, the key is its singularlisation, distanced from the demands of networked living and the ubiquity of IKEA culture, as yet, to be distinguished from the individualistic. In doing so, they also removed part of Casco’s ‘Shack and Fence’ spatial structure to become the material structure of the ‘18B Pavilion’.

spatial design views of Casco below

For the Volksbuurt Museum and Rooie Rat bookstore, a more subtle system was suggested: ifau & Jesko Fezer’s ‘Many Furniture’ items leftover from the GDR apartment, are now painted sky blue, the code for ‘publicity’ (see original colour key on reverse side), and used to signal the cohabitation of our exhibition works among the existing items in these extended venues.

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